Got very excited thinking about Spartacus, cipollino porticoes and venationes today. We had the arena completely to ourselves!
Dinner with a (much longed for) sea breeze in Napoli topped it off 🌅
Sleepy train ride home now. Won’t be forgetting this one fast!

My most difficult creative challenge, I present the #polychrome version of this ca. 50 AD Roman funerary relief, showing the deceased's pillow shop. *Many* thanks to Nina Willburger for all her time and help on research and for the original image! #Uffizi #polychromy 1/

Thank you to Clare Hornsby, Research Fellow and former assistant director at the BSR, for an illuminating lecture exploring one of the treasures of the #BSRLibrary Rare Books Collection: Thomas Ashby's copy of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Campo Marzio.

#BSROnlineLectures

A falta de turistas, Via della Conciliazione se convierte en un fabuloso campo de fútbol para los más pequeños.
#Roma
#Vaticano #Italia
#COVIDー19

Humbled and honoured to be a part of this excellent series. It was not long ago that I was a student on it! Do come along tomorrow if you’re free 😊

Auguri Roma! This morning I was treated to this wonderful perspective from the hanging door of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, now San Lorenzo in Miranda. Helpful for appreciating the sheer amount of earth uncovered over the centuries. It’s also a nice view.

These Roman columns inside a supermarket in Split, Croatia. (Photo Credit: Whoa Interesting)
More: atlasobscura.com/places/spar-su…

The Roman house the mullet
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'business in the front, party in the back'

I’ve taken some time away from here for reasons we all understand too well. Important to ensure you’re well in yourself first. Lots of exciting things coming up! Very happy to be back and in a better place to share them. Here’s a snap reflecting some of those feelings 😊

Yesterday’s dinner was delightful. Love our little Roman family: a flat comprising a Colombian filmmaker/photographer, a Brazilian opera pianist, an Italian biologist and myself, a British ancient historian. We laughed at just how fantastic that sounds when said out loud...

La primavera sta arrivando 🙂

Perfect weather for Stephen Kay and ElenaPomar
who are surveying on the Palatine today in the area of the Temple of Apollo for a BSR - Royal Holloway research project supported by 🏛 Colosseo • Foro Romano • Palatino. ☀️☀️☀️

Photo by Ben White

Trying to get a physical sense of the space in the Saepta’s porticoes this evening. If we believe the Plan, they were c.14m wide. Compared to the 6m portico here today, and the c.9.5m of Pompey and Octavia, they were extraordinarily spacious. Pretty sure this counts as research.

From the #BSRArchives . An insight into Ashby's acquisition of his collections: he gratefully accepts the 318 drawings by James Hakewill in exchange for guiding the donor's large (!) family around Rome.
Here are some British School at Rome today, and all browsable here: bsrdigitalcollections.it/hakewill-colle…

Roman Society collection update #1 with a survey on glass negatives to determine their extent and physical condition - unwrap & rearrange

British School at Rome
Alessandra Giovenco
Ben White

#BSRArchives #historyofphotography #Archives #Rome

I have used this lovely note from Dr Harriet Lander as a bookmark in my journal for a year or so now. The positive energy and little chuckle it prompts each day is genuinely massive in keeping me going. Missing friends and colleagues! I wanted to extend the sentiment to you all as well.

Our conference seems an age ago and we’ve experienced a lot since. Still, we’re super excited to see these wonderful contributions published and given a platform. Feeling positive about our futures with such bright, collaborative friends and colleagues 😊 Happy Friday! 🎉👏

From the archive: the lecture series of 1922 British School at Rome led by the directors. How great it would be to attend, though not sure about the 9pm start...

Finished a box today too: 300 items all digitally catalogued. A veritable window into BSR life during the difficult post-war years.

Work on Roman Society photographic collection begins British School at Rome.
A mix of lantern slides, glass negatives, catalogue cards...This is how it looks now: bubble wrap paradise! Stay tuned ✨

Beautiful sunrise this morning @ Parco degli Aquedotti ☀️❄️